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Discusses abstracts of research papers to be presented at the fifteenth annual meeting of the American Society of Primatologists at Glendon College of York University in Toronto, Ontario on June 19-21, 1992. Ultrasonic imaging of ovarian dynamics during the menstrual cycle in rhesus monkeys; Endocrine and behavioral constraints on reproduction in subordinate male common marmosets; Successful implementation of the video-task paradigm with a squirrel monkey.

This article provides certain abstracts of papers presented at the Fifteenth Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, which was held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Toronto, Ontario, in October 1975. Members of the Program Committee were J. Richards Jennings, James Avcrill, Anne Schell, Neil Schnciderman and Gary E. Schwartz. Symposia and mini-courses comprised most of the day-rime program. Research report accepted for presentation were given and discussed informally at two Science Fairs, one during October 17, 1975 and the other on October 19, 1975.

Highlights • Preclinical mesothelioma models are used to inform clinical therapeutic strategies. • Contrast administration time delay impacts enhancement of mesothelioma tumor on CT. • Segmented mesothelioma tumor volume from MRI is associated with patient survival. • Deep learning shows promise for mesothelioma tumor segmentation in CT. • CT-based radiomics is related to the prognosis of mesothelioma patient survival. Abstract Mesothelioma patients rely on the information their clinical team obtains from medical imaging. Whether x-ray-based computed tomography (CT) or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) based on local magnetic fields within a patient's tissues, different modalities generate images with uniquely different appearances and information content due to the physical differences of the image-acquisition process. Researchers are developing sophisticated ways to extract a greater amount of the information contained within these images. This paper summarizes the imaging-based research presented orally at the 2018 International Conference of the International Mesothelioma Interest Group (iMig) in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, held May 2–5, 2018. Presented topics included advances in the imaging of preclinical mesothelioma models to inform clinical therapeutic strategies, optimization of the time delay between contrast administration and image acquisition for maximized enhancement of mesothelioma tumor on CT, an investigation of image-based criteria for clinical tumor and nodal staging of mesothelioma by contrast-enhanced CT, an investigation of methods for the extraction of mesothelioma tumor volume from MRI and the association of volume with patient survival, the use of deep learning for mesothelioma tumor segmentation in CT, and an evaluation of CT-based radiomics for the prognosis of mesothelioma patient survival. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: Discussions of integrated care have ranged in focus from large-scale health system transformations, to discrete interventions intended to enhance local continuity of care. Beyond these variations in scale and focus, literature on integrated care has used a variety of conceptual frameworks to explain various activities and elements necessary to achieve integrated care. Existing frameworks have helped to advance research and practice; yet the complexity of changing practice required to achieve integrated care across the policy, organizational, and clinical levels complicates efforts to represent or implement these innovations in straightforward ways. Aims Objectives Theory or Methods: In this paper, we present a novel strategy for conceptualizing integrated care as developing through a series of milestones observable at the organizational level. Based on analysis of four integrated care organizational case studies in Canada and New Zealand, we outline how this approach to conceptualizing integrated care both resolves the tension of crossing the macro, meso, and micro levels of analysis, and generates new practical insights to guide policy and practice. Methods consist of qualitative interviews, observation, and document analysis across cases, and qualitative data were analyzed temporally to identify milestones as indicated by participants over time. Highlights or Results or Key Findings: We define a milestone as the occurrence of a salient event that is perceived by respondents to facilitate or disrupt efforts towards the development of integrated care. We synthesize these events at the organizational level, suggesting that the organizational level of analysis is the most appropriate level to represent the significance of these milestones. Our analysis identified six categories of milestone: (1) Strategic relational milestones, referring to building relationships between stakeholders. (2) Strategic process change milestones, referring to efforts to improve quality in practice. (3) Structural (intra-organizational) milestones, referring to changes in organizational structure. (4) Structural (inter-organizational) milestones, referring to changes in the legal, operational, or leadership structures that facilitate relationships between organizations. (5) Environmental milestones, referring to changes in the social or natural environment. (6) Political milestones, referring to changes in the control and allocation of resources. Conclusions: Our results generate a new conceptual framework for understanding the achievement of integrated care as occurring through a series of milestones. This approach enhances the focus on achieving integrated care "in the wild", in the actual environments in which leaders, clinicians, policymakers, patients, and caregivers work to implement integrated care. Implications for applicability/transferability sustainability and limitations: Our model emphasizes two practical points. First, that there is no single series of sequential steps that must be taken to achieve integrated care. Second, that policy efforts to support integrated care ought to encourage organizations and their collaborators to work toward milestones that facilitate the development of integrated care. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Summarizes some of the key findings of academic papers presented at the First World Congress on the Management of Electronic Commerce, which took place in January, 2000, in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, sponsored by McMaster University. The conference was attended by 243 delegates from more than 25 countries. Outlines two meta-management issues including: the importance of taking a strategic approach to Internet ventures as well as considering infrastructure design during implementation. Several of the papers presented fell into three broad functional categories including operations, human resources and marketing. Finally, a summary of internationalization and education implications is discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In October 1997, the Joint Steering Committee for Revision of AACR (JSC) held the International Conference on the Principles and Future Development of AACR in Toronto, Canada, to determine if a changing bibliographic landscape warranted fundamental rethinking of the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules. This paper follows the thread of those changes as, between 1997 and early 2005, JSC pursued a vigorous schedule towards a third edition of AACR. Cataloguing constituency feedback on a first draft of AACR3 prompted a change in direction to a code with the working title, Resource Description and Access (RDA)-a content standard for multi-formats and communities. doi:10.1300/J104v45n02_02 [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article provides information about the "Workshop on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks" which was held at the University of Western Ontario, Ontario, Canada in June 2006. The papers in the workshop explored the use of policies in databases and the use of policies to support autonomic computing n DiffServ routing.

Aims: A one-day workshop was hosted by the Symptom Control Committee of the National Cancer Institute of Canada, Clinical Trials Group (NCIC-CTG), in conjunction with the October 2002 annual meeting of the Canadian Association of Radiation Oncologists in Toronto, Ontario. The primary intention of the workshop was to direct the future research agenda of the Symptom Control Committee. Large group presentations were held initially to review the contemporary research issues of four selected areas of interest: fatigue, brain metastasis, bone metastasis and radiation-induced mucositis. Panel members were then charged with the identification of specific research proposals that could be considered for further development. Research questions were to be clinically relevant and currently appropriate. Any additional information needed before the launch of any potential trial was also requested. In this paper, we will review and summarise the outcomes from the radiation-induced mucositis sessions.Materials and Methods: Thirty-four participants participated in the large group sessions and contributed to one of four panel discussions on selected supportive care issues relevant to radiation oncologists.Results: Three potential and non-overlapping research questions were identified; two involving mucositis management in patients receiving radical radiation for head and neck cancer, and a third for patients with advanced lung cancer undergoing combined radiation and chemotherapy and at risk for the development of symptomatic oesophagitis.Conclusion: The workshop successfully identified three potential research questions. The large group and the smaller panel discussions successfully established consensus on important aspects of future study designs. The current ‘standard of care’, appropriate experimental treatments, primary outcomes of interest and study population parameters were each important issues that were discussed. The importance of developing meaningful biological assays was reviewed, as was the need to ensure the appropriate storage of biological samples from patients for future study. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Presents abstracts of several papers presented at the 30th Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Information Science held at the University of Toronto in Ontario from May 30 to June 1, 2002. Social theory of time; Use of XML for electronic text collections in the humanities; Multilingual metadata for moving image databases; Theory of copyright policy.

Discusses the reactions to the old and new institutional economists at the June 1989 History of Economics Conference in Toronto, Ontario. Significant issue in the Toronto conference; Information on the papers presented in the conference; Observation on Langlois' admission on old and new institutional economists.

Abstract: The latest meeting in the series of International Conferences of Historical Geographers was held in Kyoto in 2009. The series originated in a meeting of Canadian and British historical geographers held in Kingston, Ontario, in 1975. Four subsequent meetings held in Britain, Canada and the USA saw an increasingly international participation and the sixth meeting, held in 1986, was accorded the title of the Sixth International Conference of Historical Geographers. Eight further such conferences have been held since then, some in locations well beyond Britain and North America. This paper records the basic historical and geographical characteristics of all of the meetings between 1975 and 2009. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Highlights the events in the 26th General Assembly of the International Radio Science Union (URSI) held in Toronto, Ontario. Presentation of tutorial papers; Archival documents of URSI; Lecture given out by Professor Bach Andersen.

Introduces papers in the March 2004 issue of the "Journal of Human Rights." Reading of shorter versions of the papers at the "Writing and Terror" conference held at the University of Toronto in March 2001; Thought and research that took place before the coordinated attacks in the United States of September 11, 2001; Organizers of the conference.

Comments on the Global Measurement Systems for Atmospheric Composition conference held in May 1997 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Reason the conference was organized; Agencies involved in the conference; Features of papers presented during the conference.

Details events scheduled for the annual joint meeting of the American Physical Society and the American Association of Physics Teachers that will be held at the Royal York Hotel in Toronto, Ontario during January 21-24, 1985. Location of the hotel; Where the ceremonial session will be held; Plenary session highlighting symposia, including the topics of astronomy and optics; Workshops; Exhibition planned by the American Institute of Physics. INSET: Invited papers and special sessions.

Highlights the Third International Symposium in Medical Geography held August 7 to 11, 1988, hosted by the Department of Geography, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario. History of the symposium; Number of papers presented at Kingston; Overview of a typical day's agenda at Kingston.

The article presents information that the eighth International Symposium on Transportation and Traffic Theory will be held at Toronto, Canada on June 24-26, 1981. It will be similar in spirit to the symposia held previously in Detroit, London, New York, Karlsruhe, Berkeley, Sydney and Kyoto. All submitted manuscripts will be refereed. Those accepted for presentation will be published in the proceedings of the symposium. Manuscripts should be mailed to the Secretary by December 1, 1980; any received after January 1, 1981, are unlikely to be considered. Prior submission of abstracts is not required; however, prospective authors are asked to write to the Secretary as soon as possible as they can be advised about manuscript format, refereeing procedures and deadline details. To facilitate discussion of presented papers, attendance will be limited; therefore, pre-registration is required. Further information about registration, accommodation and travel assistance is available from: Secretary, Eighth International Symposium on Transportation and Traffic Theory at the University of Toronto/ York University in a Joint Program in Transportation.

The article presents an announcement regarding fifteenth annual meeting of society for psychophysiological research from October 16, 1975 at Hyatt Regency hotel in Toronto, Ontario. Information regarding registration and submission of papers is also given in the article.